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Coral Critical Habitat Bibliography Coral Critical Habitat Bibliography Hope Shinn, Librarian, LAC Group on assignment at NOAA Central Library NCRL subject guide 2021-07 DOI: 10.25923/tcsk-va53 June 2021 U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research NOAA Central Library – Silver Spring, Maryland Table of Contents Background & Scope ................................................................................................................................. 2 Sources Reviewed ..................................................................................................................................... 2 Section 1: Substrate .................................................................................................................................. 3 Section 2: Trophic Effects of Reef Fishing ................................................................................................. 8 Section 3: Invasive Species and Algae ..................................................................................................... 11 Section 4: Sedimentation ........................................................................................................................ 17 Section 5: Ocean Warming ..................................................................................................................... 22 Section 6: Ocean Acidification ................................................................................................................ 44 Section 7: Nutrient Enrichment .............................................................................................................. 51 Section 8: Water clarity ........................................................................................................................... 55 Section 9: Contaminants ......................................................................................................................... 57 Section 10: Symbiotic Species ................................................................................................................. 65 Section 11: Disease ................................................................................................................................. 68 Section 12: Ocean Deoxygenation .......................................................................................................... 73 Section 13: General Habitat Information ................................................................................................ 75 1 Background & Scope In 2020 and 2021, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposed rules to designate critical habitat for threatened corals in U.S. waters of the Indo-Pacific and the Caribbean: Proposed Rule to Designate Critical Habitat for the Threatened Indo-Pacific Corals and Proposed Rule to Designate Critical Habitat for the Threatened Caribbean Corals. The NOAA Central Library created this bibliography to provide NMFS with the most up-to-date scientific literature concerning the habitat features and threats to the corals named in the two proposed rules linked above. The literature included here is from 2018 forward and organized into sections relating to the physical and biological features essential for coral conservation. These sections appear in the same order that they appear in the NMFS reports and rules. Section 1: Substrate Section 2: Trophic Effects of Reef Fishing Section 3: Invasive Species and Algae Section 4: Sedimentation Section 5: Ocean Warming Section 6: Ocean Acidification Section 7: Nutrient Enrichment Section 8: Water Clarity Section 9: Contaminants Section 10: Symbiotic Species Section 11: Disease Section 12: Ocean Deoxygenation Section 13: General Habitat Information Sources Reviewed The following literature sources and databases were searched in order to create this bibliography: Clarivate’s Web of Science, ProQuest’s Aquatic Science Fisheries Abstracts, Google Scholar, Dimensions, JSTOR, EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier and Elsevier’s ScienceDirect, BioOne Complete, Science.gov, and open web searching. 2 Section 1: Substrate Barnhill, K. A., & Bahr, K. D. (2019). Coral Resilience at Malauka`a Fringing Reef, Kāneʻohe Bay, Oʻahu after 18 years. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 7(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse7090311 Globally, coral reefs are under threat from climate change and increasingly frequent bleaching events. However, corals in Kāneʻohe Bay, Hawaiʻi have demonstrated the ability to acclimatize and resist increasing temperatures. Benthic cover (i.e., coral, algae, other) was compared over an 18 year period (2000 vs. 2018) to estimate species composition changes. Despite a climate change induced 0.96 &deg;C temperature increase and two major bleaching events within the 18-year period, the fringing reef saw no significant change in total coral cover (%) or relative coral species composition in the two dominant reef-building corals, Porites compressa and Montipora capitata. However, the loss of two coral species (Pocillopora meandrina and Porites lobata) and the addition of one new coral species (Leptastrea purpurea) between surveys indicates that while the fringing reef remains intact, a shift in species composition has occurred. While total non-coral substrate cover (%) increased from 2000 to 2018, two species of algae (Gracilaria salicornia and Kappaphycus alvarezii) present in the original survey were absent in 2018. The previously dominant algae Dictyosphaeria spp. significantly decreased in percent cover between surveys. The survival of the studied fringing reef indicates resilience and suggests these Hawaiian corals are capable of acclimatization to climate change and bleaching events. de Bakker, D. M., van Duyl, F. C., Perry, C. T., & Meesters, E. H. (2019). Extreme spatial heterogeneity in carbonate accretion potential on a Caribbean fringing reef linked to local human disturbance gradients. Global Change Biology, 25(12), 4092-4104. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14800 The capacity of coral reefs to maintain their structurally complex frameworks and to retain the potential for vertical accretion is vitally important to the persistence of their ecological functioning and the ecosystem services they sustain. However, datasets to support detailed along-coast assessments of framework production rates and accretion potential do not presently exist. Here, we estimate, based on gross bioaccretion and bioerosion measures, the carbonate budgets and resultant estimated accretion rates (EAR) of the shallow reef zone of leeward Bonaire ? between 5 and 12 m depth ? at unique fine spatial resolution along this coast (115 sites). Whilst the fringing reef of Bonaire is often reported to be in a better ecological condition than most sites throughout the wider Caribbean region, our data show that the carbonate budgets of the reefs and derived EAR varied considerably across this ~58 km long fringing reef complex. Some areas, in particular the marine reserves, were indeed still dominated by structurally complex coral communities with high net carbonate production (>10 kg CaCO3 m?2 year?1), high live coral cover and complex structural topography. The majority of the studied sites, however, were defined by relatively low budget states (<2 kg CaCO3 m?2 year?1) or were in a state of net erosion. These data highlight the marked spatial heterogeneity that can occur in budget states, and thus in reef accretion potential, even between quite closely spaced areas of individual reef complexes. This heterogeneity is linked strongly to the degree of localized land-based impacts along the coast, and resultant differences in the abundance of reef framework building coral species. The major impact of this variability is that those sections of reef defined by low-accretion rates will have limited capacity to maintain their structural integrity and to keep pace with current projections of climate change induced sea-level rise (SLR), thus posing a threat to reef functioning and biodiversity, potentially leading to trophic cascades. Since many Caribbean reefs are more severely degraded than those found around 3 Bonaire, it is to be expected that the findings presented here are rather the rule than the exception, but the study also highlights the need for similar high spatial resolution (along-coast) assessments of budget states and accretion rates to meaningfully explore increasing coastal risk at the country level. The findings also more generally underline the significance of reducing local anthropogenic disturbance and restoring framework building coral assemblages. Appropriately focussed local preservation efforts may aid in averting future large-scale above reef water depth increases on Caribbean coral reefs and will limit the social and economic implications associated with the loss of reef goods and services. Januchowski-Hartley, F. A., Bauman, A. G., Morgan, K. M., Seah, J. C. L., Huang, D., & Todd, P. A. (2020). Accreting coral reefs in a highly urbanized environment. Coral Reefs, 39(3), 717-731. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01953-3 Globally, many coral reefs have fallen into negative carbonate budget states, where biological erosion exceeds carbonate production. The compounding effects of urbanization and climate change have caused reductions in coral cover and shifts in community composition that may limit the ability of reefs to maintain rates of vertical accretion in line with rising sea levels. Here we report on coral reef carbonate budget surveys across seven coral
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